Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
By: Sara Wheeler
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn …
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1. The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole
By: Paul Theroux , Roland Huntford
4.35
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercel… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- adventure
2. The Songlines
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary book, Bruce Chatwin has adapted a literary form common until the eighteenth c… read more
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- history
- memoir
- adventure
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- nonfiction
"A journey is a fragment of Hell."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Senza costrizione non si potrebbe fondare nessun insediamento. [...]"-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Quali sono, quindi le prime impressioni che un bimbo nomade ha del mondo? Un capezzolo dondolante e una cascata d'oro."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
3. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917
By: Ernest Shackleton
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shack… read more
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- history
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
4. Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
By: Gabrielle Walker
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of… read more
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- history
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
5. Victim of the Aurora
By: Thomas Keneally
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
The thrilling story of an ill-fated expedition to the South Pole by the bestselling and award-winni… read more
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- travel
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6. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
By: Sara Wheeler
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn … read more
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- history
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
- science
7. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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8. No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women And Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica
By: Ann Bancroft , Liv Arnesen
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Chronicles and celebrates the journey of two modern-day heroines who crossed Antarctic on foot. Tho… read more
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9. The Worst Journey in the World
By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard , Caroline Alexander
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Worst Journey in the Worldrecounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole… read more
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10. Captain Scott
By: Ranulph Fiennes
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Presents the story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived by 'the world's greatest living … read more
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11. Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture
By: John Lukacs
4.50
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
"Lukacs's book is a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious per… read more
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12. The Slaves of Solitude
By: David Lodge , Patrick Hamilton
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has beco… read more
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13. End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica
By: Peter Matthiessen , Kenneth Garrett
4.23
Format: 528 pages,
America's greatest literary naturalist takes readers on the ultimate wildlife safari: a true back-o… read more
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14. In Patagonia
By: Bruce Chatwin , Nicholas Shakespeare
3.67
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Br… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder."-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D.Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names take…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
"I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from t…"-Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
15. On The Black Hill
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On the Black Hillis an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in r… read more
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16. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- memoir
- nature
- science
17. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
18. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- nature
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
19. La Panthère des neiges
By: Sylvain Tesson
3.65
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
En 2018, Sylvain Tesson est invité par le photographe animalier Vincent Munier à observer aux confi… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
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20. The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes
By: Meredith Hooper
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventu… read more
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- nonfiction
- adventure
21. The Work of Nature: How The Diversity Of Life Sustains Us
By: Yvonne Baskin
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
"We do not question that flesh and bone and leaf litter will decay to dust, that seeds will sprout … read more
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- nature
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